About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Monday, January 22, 2007

January 22......

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 (344 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.

● 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

● 1900 - Off of South Africa, the British released the German steamer Herzog, which had been seized on January 6.

● 1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son, succeeded her.

● 1903 - U.S. and Colombia sign the “Hay-Herran Treaty,” which allowed the U.S. to lease a swatch of land across the Panamanian isthmus for a canal. When the Colombian Senate balked at ratifying the treaty, the U.S. in November backed a secession of the province of Panama from Colombia; the new Panamanian government promptly leased the Canal Zone to the U.S. for 99 years.

● 1905 - France - Burial of Louise Michel. A procession of over 100,000 people accompany her coffin to the Levallois cemetery, where she is buried. The Lepine prefect, who tried to follow the procession, was driven off by the anarchists.

● 1905 - Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

● 1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Over 130 passengers die trying to get ashore or drowning on the ship. It's Canada's worst maritime tragedy up to that time.

● 1946 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.

● 1961 - Two thousand travel through village occupied for 18 years by army as training ground. Imber, Wiltshire, Britain.

● 1962 - 'A6 murder' trial begins; James Hanratty, accused of murdering a physicist in a lay-by on the A6, enters a plea of "not guilty".

● 1962 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.

● 1963 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In Jesus Christ, God and man...are already at peace not as enemies but as true companions. In Him salvation is already present and at work.'

● 1963 - Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

● 1964 - Mumbai's lowest-ever temperature recorded (7.4°C).

● 1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin

● 1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)

● 1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite

● 1967 - Two hundred killed by Somoza's National Guard during protest against state violence, Managua, Nicaragua.

● 1967 - Simon & Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The recording is not released until July 16, 2002.

● 1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.

● 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.

● 1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful

● 1998 - Theodore Kaczynski plead guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.

● 1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit

● 2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba.

● 2001 - President George W. Bush signed a memorandum reinstating full abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid.

● 2001 - Former National Football League (NFL) player Rae Carruth was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Adams died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived and lives with the victim's mother.

● 2001 - Acting on a tip, authorities captured four of the "Texas 7" in Woodland Park, CO, at a convenience store. A fifth convict killed himself inside a motor home.

● 2002 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging that the market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.

● 2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (Later Kmart will buyout Sears.)

● 2002 - Fifty-five people arrested on the steps of the United Nations in New York, protesting the U.S. war in Afghanistan and prospective expansion of the War on Terrorism.

● 2002 - In Calcutta, India, Heavily armed gunmen attacked the U.S. government cultural center. Five police officers were killed and twenty others, including one pedestrian and one private security guard, were wounded.

● 2002 - Lawyers suing Enron Corp. asked a court to prevent further shredding of documents due to the pending federal investigation.

● 2002 - Amazon.com announced that it had posted its first net profit in the fourth quarter (quarter ending December 31, 2001).

● 2002 - Marc Chagall's work "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was found at a postal installation in Topeka, KS. The 8x10 oil painting is valued at about $1 million. The work was stolen a year before from the Jewish Museum in New York City.

● 2003 - The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.

● 2003 - In New York, the "Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsmen" exhibit opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

● 2003 - It was reported that scientists in China had found fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings.

● 2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.

● 2003 - World premiere of Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central.

● 2004 - Bill Janklow, a South Dakota congressman who had resigned after being convicted of manslaugther for a collision that killed a motorcyclist, was sentenced to 100 days in jail.

● 2006 - Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected president of Portugal.

● 2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

● Roman Catholic:● January 22● St. Anastasius XIV● St. Blaesilla● St. Brithwald● St. Dominic of Sora● St. Francis Gil de Frederich● St. Matthew Alonso Leziniana● St. Paschasius● St. Vincent the Deacon● St. Vincent of Digne● Sts. Vincent, Orontius, & Victor● St. Vincent Pallotti● Bl. William Patenson

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 10 (Civil Date: January 22)● Afterfeast of the Theophany.● St. Gregory of Nyssa● St. Dometian, bishop of Melitene.● St. Marcian, presbyter of Constantinople.● St. Paul, abbot of Obnora (Vologda), and his disciple St. Macarius, abbot of Pisma Monastery.● Blessed Theosebia the deaconess, sister of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa.● St. Ammon, monk.● St. Macarius of the Kiev Caves.● Repose of Schemahieromonk Antipas of Valaam (1882).

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